Happy 80th birthday to Ringo Starr! Read and watch our new interview, which spans his whole life and career
But you know, what came out of that was incredible, because it was the second time when I was 13, with [tuberculosis]. I learned to crochet and stuff like that. They just give you stuff to do – not like schooling. And they had, like, the music day where this woman would bring in tambourines, maracas, triangles and little drums. Six-inch, seven-inch drums. And from that moment, I wanted to be a drummer. Yeah, that’s all I wanted to be – a drummer.
I think that gave me the impetus. I didn’t work out for many years. I worked out in nightclubs! [Laughs] But that’s not me now. I started working out. Next door, I have a gym. And I’m in the gym at least three and sometimes six days a week. And, you know, we walk. When I started walking, I was living in Monte Carlo. I’d walk around the port, I’d come back and go into a local restaurant, bum a cigarette, and have a double espresso.
“I miss the guy,” Starr says of Lennon. “I miss George. I still miss those two boys. But you know, I’ve still got my brother” Paul said at one point that he loved that you could cop the feel of Ray Charles’ “What’d I Say.” And I do hear that feel in your early playing a lot. Was that song influential for you?
There’s a story that Keith Moon kept buying presents for your kids, except he wasn’t really buying them.
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